Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of…

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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness...

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness...

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical...

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical...

Experience by itself is not science.

Experience by itself is not science.

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally,...

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally,...

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects...

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects...

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness...

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness...

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the...

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the...

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its...

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its...

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in...

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in...

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of...

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of...

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that...

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that...

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of...

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of...

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind...

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind...

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high...

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high...

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make...

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make...

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure...

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure...